"PBS is airing SUPERHEROES tonite from 8-11 pm! Hit the link for my review. Lotta Neal Adams! And a lotta Arlen Schumer! The doc features enlightening commentary from living luminaries such as Jim Steranko, Neal Adams and Stan Lee, as well as artful insight from historians like Danny Fingeroth and Arlen Schumer. There are also nice moments with actors like Adam West and Lynda Carter. But the real treats are the interviews with since-deceased creators like Carmine Infantino, Jerry Robinson, Joe Simon and Joe Kubert."

As we look back 500 years ago on the Renaissance masters of the human figure like Michelangelo and Raphael, so too will future art historians 500 years from now look back on an artistic giant who walked the earth in our time, a graphic stylist nonpareil who made pen and brush marks like no one on earth before or after him: the one, the only...Joe Kubert!

In this retrospective/eulogy for legendary comic book artist Carmine Infantino (1925-2013), comic book historian Arlen Schumer (The Silver Age of Comic Book Art) presents an overview of the artist's work, spotlighting Infantino's definitive versions of DC Comics' superheroes The Flash, Adam Strange and Batman.

WHO CELEBRATES A 54th ANNIVERSARY??? If you think Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone is the greatest TV series of all time, YOU do! On October 2nd, 1959, Serling's magnum opus debuted--and I'll be screening "Where is Everybody," only the greatest pilot episode of any TV series ever, this October 2nd during my multimedia presentation in Binghamton, NY (the 4th event below)--Serling's hometown--one of four TZ 54th Anniversary presentation/events that week!

For fifty-four years, you've watched The Twilight Zone. Now see it for the first time! LIVE MULTIMEDIA SHOWS, TRIVIA CONTESTS, VIP EVENTS and more.

September 29th, through October 2nd, 2013 Various locations in Binghamton, NY Rod Serling's hometown!

The Bundy Museum of History and Art and Sight, Sound & Mind Productions present The 54th Anniversary of THE TWILIGHT ZONE (1959 - 2013)

Created by Arlen Schumer, Author & designer of the acclaimed VISIONS OF THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

According to Rod Serling’s widow, Carol, Rod was “...an admirer of fantasy and horror tales...his library was full of books by Poe and Lovecraft, Shelley and James, and work by their ‘great-grandchildren,’ published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Galaxy and If.” But did Rod’s library include comic books, like the 1950’s E.C. science-fiction stories with twist endings that so many Twilight Zone episodes resemble?

It is well established that growing up in Binghamton, New York greatly influenced Rod Serling the rest of his life, but little is known of the three years he spent in Westport, Connecticut before moving to Hollywood. Yet in that brief time, Serling not only came to overnight success as a television playwright, winning three Emmy Awards in a row, but those Westport years would resonate years later in episodes of his magnum opus, The Twilight Zone.

Join renowned Twilight Zone scholar Arlen Schumer in a special sneak preview of the presentation he'll be giving at the Rod Serling Conference in Los Angeles – one night only at the Bundy Museum in Binghamton, NY. Seating is extremely limited for this special event.

Take advantage of The Bundy Museum's Membership Drive! Purchase a Bundy Museum membership during the 54th Anniversary Twilight Zone Celebration, and enjoy your membership benefits all year long as well as FREE ADMISSION to the October 2nd events, plus a free copy of Arlen Schumer's book Visions from the Twilight Zone as a special membership premium for this event only!

The Bundy Museum of History and Art 127-129 Main Street, Binghamton, NY For more information and ticket prices, visithttp://www.bundymuseum.org/

Picture, if you will, The Twilight Zone, a television series that functioned as an artistic meeting point between early 20th Century surrealism and 1960s psychedelia, modern art and popular culture. Arlen Schumer supports this theory with a unique multimedia show using The Twilight Zone’s own words, images and music, that goes from high art to low art and back again. The Twilight Zone's pilot episode that aired on October 2, 1959, "Where is Everybody?" will be screened as well. For 54 years you’ve watched The Twilight Zone. Now see it for the first time.

THIS SUNDAY MAY 5th, 2013 @ 3:00pm! In an incredible multimedia gallery space, part of Stepping Stones Museum's YES2 Youth Program's 1st Comic Book Mini-Convention! A screen the size of a small IMAX to project on! Comic book images like you've never seen 'em before!

I'll be going though not only "The First 25 Years" of my comic book history works (since my instigating the Fall '88 PRINT mag special comics issue), but "the first 25 years" of my childhood and young adult years, from being the art director of BATMANIA mag in high school to working for Batman's greatest artist, Neal Adams, after art school (like getting paid to go to graduate school), and then creating a career illustrating in a comic book style, and parlaying comic book history to audiences around the country!

And hey, adults--it ain't just for kids! There'll be plenty of adults/parents, and ALL ages are invited!

Comic art, beginning in the early 20th century as comic strips before evolving into comic books, has always been a fount of incredible, and incredibly beautiful, pure illustration—and in this “VisuaLecture,” as comic book historian and member of The Society of illustrators Arlen Schumer (author/designer of the award-winning coffeetable book The Silver Age of Comic Book Art) calls his supergraphic approach to staid art history presentations, Schumer provides an historical overview of the twin mediums and how they’ve intersected—and intersected in his own comic art-styled illustration and design work—that is as enlightening as it is entertaining; edutainment at its best!

Comic book art has always been graphic design—both are verbal/visual communication hybrids—and in this “VisuaLecture,” as comic book historian Arlen Schumer (author/designer of the award-winning coffeetable book The Silver Age of Comic Book Art) calls his super-graphic approach to staid art history presentations, Schumer provides an historical overview of the twin mediums, and how they’ve intersected in his own illustration and design work, that is as enlightening as it is entertaining; edutainment at its best!